In 2004, three years into the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, a number of dreadful photographs surfaced that showed members of the US military,...
“There is no such thing as race, none” – this is how master novelist Toni Morrison broke it down very simply in a famous interview. “It’s...
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto , Suketu Mehta has written a deeply erudite defence of global...
Soon after my second Covid-19 shot, I received an email from a dear friend who I had been remiss in contacting, asking how I was coping with, as she...
The idea of American democracy from its very inception, and as flagged by the ridiculous euphemism of its “exceptionalism”, is literally a...
This year’s Black Lives Matter uprising in the US and the way it resonated with people in different corners of the world drew renewed attention to...
I sat down with Obama’s book, with a cup of my reassuring tea in tow, thumbing through its pages. I looked at the glossy pictures inside, read the...
“They came, they uprooted, they burned, they killed, they plundered, and they left.”This is celebrated Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni’s ...
Lebanon has been witnessing unprecedented demonstrations against the government that suggest the country’s proverbial sectarianism seems suddenly...
In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the United States is once again roiling in pain, struggling to come to...
